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22 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday alleged that deactivating Aadhaar cards is a political game and asserted that her government has stopped that “conspiracy” of the central government.Addressing a programme organised on the occasion International Mother Language ...
22 February 2024 TelegraphThe National Human Rights Commission has sent a notice to the West Bengal government and the state's police chief over reports alleging "unabated human rights violations" due to continued violence in restive Sandeshkhali, officials said on Wednesday. Considering the ...
22 February 2024 TelegraphCPM politburo member Brinda Karat, along with some other members of the party, lambasted the Trinamul government of the state and chief minister Mamata Banerjee over the alleged atrocities on women in Sandeshkhali on Tuesday, while equating it with ...
22 February 2024 TelegraphThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) is carrying out raids and search operations at multiple locations in the city in connection with a fake call centre scam, a senior officer said on Wednesday.The raids and searches targeted the residences and offices ...
22 February 2024 TelegraphTwo Trinamul Congress MPs, currently estranged from the party due to accusations of associating with the BJP, have commended West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose's decision to open the doors of the Raj Bhavan for the victimised women of ...
22 February 2024 TelegraphAround 200 people belonging to the Sikh community staged a demonstration in front of the BJP office in the city on Wednesday, expressing solidarity with an IPS officer who had alleged that West Bengal party leader Suvendu Adhikari labeled ...
22 February 2024 TelegraphAAP leader Gopal Rai slammed the BJP on Wednesday over a Sikh IPS officer posted in West Bengal being allegedly dubbed as a "Khalistani" by some saffron party activists and said it should apologise for insulting the officer. At ...
22 February 2024 TelegraphThe Mamata Banerjee-led government has surpassed the erstwhile CPI(M) dispensation in subjecting the people of West Bengal to atrocities, the BJP claimed on Wednesday, saying the public will give a befitting reply to the ruling TMC in the Lok ...
22 February 2024 TelegraphPoliticking has arrived with gusto in this strife-torn pocket; there are no signs it will depart anytime soon.BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday made a big-bang entry into Sandeshkhali and assured villagers of his support for them, armed with ...
21 February 2024 TelegraphCPM politburo member Brinda Karat, along with some other members of the party, lambasted the Trinamul government of the state and chief minister Mamata Banerjee over the alleged atrocities on women in Sandeshkhali on Tuesday, while equating it with ...
21 February 2024 TelegraphA “fact-finding” committee comprising former judges, bureaucrats and civil society members will visit several areas of South 24-Parganas and North 24-Parganas, including Sandeshkhali, on February 24 and 25 to probe alleged incidents of human rights violations and submit its ...
21 February 2024 TelegraphThe chairperson of the National Commission for Women (NCW), Rekha Sharma, on Tuesday said chief minister Mamata Banerjee should visit Sandeshkhali to see the ground realities by herself. “The chief minister should visit Sandeshkhali immediately to get to know ...
21 February 2024 TelegraphSantu Pan, 27, a journalist with a Bengali television news channel, was arrested on Monday night for allegedly outraging the modesty of a woman in strife-torn Sandeshkhali, where he was on an assignment.Pan was arrested from a boat near ...
21 February 2024 TelegraphGovernor C.V. Ananda Bose on Tuesday visited Chetanagach, a village in Chopra block of North Dinajpur, where four minor boys died on February 12 buried under the earth in a trench being dug near the Bangladesh border.“We have sought ...
21 February 2024 TelegraphMayor Gautam Deb on Tuesday tabled a budget of Rs 608 crore with a deficit of Rs 10.53 crore for the 2024-2025 fiscal at the Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC). In the budget that was tabled ahead of the Parliament ...
21 February 2024 TelegraphThe decision of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) to print a student diary with a picture of the hill body’s chief Anit Thapa has kicked off a fresh row in the hills.Every year, the academic session in the hills ...
21 February 2024 TelegraphThe decision of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) to print a student diary with a picture of the hill body’s chief Anit Thapa has kicked off a fresh row in the hills.Every year, the academic session in the hills ...
21 February 2024 TelegraphLeader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi accusing chief minister Mamata Banerjee of spreading false information to create "public hysteria" over Aadhaar card deactivation for "political gains". Adhikari's letter comes in response ...
21 February 2024 TelegraphMayor Gautam Deb on Tuesday tabled a budget of Rs 608 crore with a deficit of Rs 10.53 crore for the 2024-2025 fiscal at the Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC). In the budget that was tabled ahead of the Parliament ...
21 February 2024 TelegraphGovernor C.V. Ananda Bose on Tuesday visited Chetanagach, a village in Chopra block of North Dinajpur, where four minor boys died on February 12 buried under the earth in a trench being dug near the Bangladesh border.“We have sought ...
21 February 2024 TelegraphSantu Pan, 27, a journalist with a Bengali television news channel, was arrested on Monday night for allegedly outraging the modesty of a woman in strife-torn Sandeshkhali, where he was on an assignment.Pan was arrested from a boat near ...
21 February 2024 TelegraphThe chairperson of the National Commission for Women (NCW), Rekha Sharma, on Tuesday said chief minister Mamata Banerjee should visit Sandeshkhali to see the ground realities by herself. “The chief minister should visit Sandeshkhali immediately to get to know ...
21 February 2024 TelegraphSuvendu Adhikari struck third time lucky in his attempt to visit Sandeshkhali on Tuesday but not before the intervention of the Calcutta High Court that issued a directive which prompted the police to finally allow Bengal's leader of the ...
21 February 2024 TelegraphThe Editors Guild of India has voiced serious concern over Monday's arrest of a television journalist in Bengal while he was reporting on allegations of sexual assault in Sandeshkhali. The Guild termed Monday's arrest of Santu Pan, a journalist ...
21 February 2024 TelegraphThe Calcutta High Court on Tuesday allowed Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari to visit the restive Sandeshkhali village, while observing that it is surprising that the main accused Shajahan Sheikh has not been arrested by ...
21 February 2024 TelegraphSandeshkhali (WB), Feb 20 (PTI) Senior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, who arrived in Sandeshkhali in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district on Tuesday afternoon after getting permission from the Calcutta High Court, described the situation in the strife-torn area ...
21 February 2024 TelegraphA Sikh IPS officer, who was deputed at Dhamakhali to prevent senior West Bengal BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari from visiting restive Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district, got agitated after a group of activists of the saffron party allegedly ...
21 February 2024 TelegraphThe CBI is searching two premises, one belonging to Amal Bhattacharya and the other to his company Unix Infrastructure Pvt Ltd, in Kolkata in connection with a 2021 ponzi scam case, officials said on Tuesday.The Central Bureau of Investigation ...
21 February 2024 TelegraphThe NHRC has sent a notice to the West Bengal's police chief over a complaint alleging that a journalist covering the Sandeshkhali issue was "unlawfully detained," officials said on Tuesday. The National Human Rights Commission in a statement said ...
21 February 2024 TelegraphAfter nearly 12 days the Opposition in Bengal was allowed to set foot in North 24-Parganas Sandeshkhali, though not without over an hour of street-politics and theatrics played out on the dusty roads on Tuesday.When they did reach, the ...
21 February 2024 TelegraphCooch Behar: District Trinamul leaders in Cooch Behar resorted to protests and a road blockade on Monday alleging that BJP supporters ransacked an e-rickshaw and assaulted one of their workers when he was making public announcements on a Trinamul ...
20 February 2024 TelegraphSenior TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee reaffirmed his commitment to continue fighting for the release of West Bengal's financial dues and asserted that the party would not be deterred by “intimidating raids” by central agencies in the fight for the ...
20 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose appealed to political parties and people from all walks of life to come together and organise a 'peace visit' to trouble-torn Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district to show solidarity with the aggrieved ...
20 February 2024 TelegraphThe ruling establishment in Bengal has launched a series of initiatives in strife-torn Sandeshkhali in an apparent attempt to address the pent-up ire among villagers against ruling party leaders in the North 24-Parganas pocket. As part of a confidence-building ...
20 February 2024 TelegraphUnion Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur has condemned the Mamata Banerjee-led government in West Bengal after police took away a television journalist reporting on the violence in Sandeshkhali."Instead of taking action against goons misbehaving with women, the West ...
20 February 2024 TelegraphThe situation in Sandeshkhali in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district remained tense over protests against TMC-led atrocities and sexual harassment, even as police maintained a strong presence in the area on Tuesday.The Leader of the Opposition in the ...
20 February 2024 TelegraphSleuths of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested one person who was allegedly working as a middleman in in West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) recruitment scam, an officer said on Tuesday.The person, who was earlier apprehended by the ...
20 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose on Tuesday reached Chopra in Uttar Dinajpur district and will talk to the family members of the four children, who died allegedly after a mound of soil caved in during drainage expansion ...
20 February 2024 TelegraphAccusing the West Bengal government of stifling the voices of numerous women in Sandeshkhali during protests against alleged TMC-led atrocities, National Commission for Women (NCW) chairperson Rekha Sharma on Monday demanded imposition of President’s Rule in the state.During the ...
20 February 2024 TelegraphLeader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, armed with a court order, was stopped at Dhamakhali on his latest attempt to reach Bengal’s latest political hotspot Sandeshkhali on Tuesday, This is Adhikari's third attempt to visit the North 24-Parganas island which ...
20 February 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul Cha Bagan Shramik Union (TCBSU) — the tea trade union affiliated to INTTUC, the workers’ front of Bengal's ruling party — launched its 11-day-long march from the Bengal-Assam border on Monday to reach out to the Dooars ...
20 February 2024 TelegraphSenior TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee reaffirmed his commitment to continue fighting for the release of West Bengal's financial dues and asserted that the party would not be deterred by “intimidating raids” by central agencies in the fight for the ...
20 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose appealed to political parties and people from all walks of life to come together and organise a 'peace visit' to trouble-torn Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district to show solidarity with the aggrieved ...
20 February 2024 TelegraphChief minister Mamata Banerjee continued her salvos at the BSF and the Narendra Modi government on Monday over the Chopra incident on Monday as her cabinet colleague Chandrima Bhattacharya reached the village in North Dinajpur where four children died ...
20 February 2024 TelegraphNational Commission for Women (NCW) chairperson Rekha Sharma on Monday accused the West Bengal government of stifling the voices of numerous women in Sandeshkhali during protests against alleged TMC-led atrocities, prompting a rebuttal from the ruling party, which claimed ...
20 February 2024 TelegraphThe Lok Sabha's Privileges Committee, which was to take up BJP MP Sukanta Majumdar's complaint against West Bengal government officials, could not meet on Monday due to lack of a quorum.The development left many within the BJP disappointed as ...
20 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday claimed that Aadhaar cards of SC, ST and minority people of the state are being deactivated ahead of the Lok Sabha polls.Attacking the BJP government at the Centre, she alleged that ...
20 February 2024 TelegraphAccusing the West Bengal government of stifling the voices of numerous women in Sandeshkhali during protests against alleged TMC-led atrocities, National Commission for Women (NCW) chairperson Rekha Sharma on Monday demanded imposition of President’s Rule in the state.During the ...
20 February 2024 TelegraphThe CBI has taken over the investigation into alleged kidnapping of a teenaged girl from West Bengal's Bardhaman district in which the role of functionaries of the "ruling dispensation" is under scanner, officials on Monday said. The agency's action ...
20 February 2024 TelegraphNational Commission for Women (NCW) chairperson Rekha Sharma on Monday called for resignation of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and imposition of President's Rule following allegations of sexual abuse by TMC leaders in Sandeshkhali.The NCW chief's remarks drew ...
20 February 2024 TelegraphThe Calcutta High Court on Monday granted permission to Leader of Opposition in West Bengal assembly Suvendu Adhikari to visit trouble-torn Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district.The court directed Adhikari to provide a route map of his visit to ...
20 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking to know the reasons behind the “sudden deactivation” of Aadhaar cards that has caused a “hue and cry” among people in the state.She also ...
20 February 2024 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Monday stayed the notices issued by the privileges committee of the Lok Sabha to the West Bengal chief secretary, DGP and others over a complaint of "misconduct" filed against them by BJP MP Sukanta Majumdar.Majumdar ...
20 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose will visit Chopra in Uttar Dinajpur district on February 20 and talk to the family members of the four children, who died allegedly after a mound of soil caved in during drainage ...
20 February 2024 TelegraphThe BJP on Monday slammed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for questioning the version of some of the complainant women in Sandeshkhali, saying she has made "very cheap" remarks and that it was time to throw out her ...
20 February 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul Congress on Monday welcomed the Supreme Court's decision to stay the notices issued by the privileges committee of the Lok Sabha Secretariat to West Bengal's chief secretary, DGP, and others in response to a complaint lodged by ...
20 February 2024 TelegraphThe Lok Sabha's Privileges Committee, which was to take up BJP MP Sukanta Majumdar's complaint against West Bengal government officials, could not meet on Monday due to lack of a quorum.The development left many within the BJP disappointed as ...
20 February 2024 TelegraphThe Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a PIL seeking a court-monitored CBI or SIT probe into the violence in West Bengal's Sandeshkhali village, saying the incidents cannot be compared to the savagery in Manipur.A bench of Justices ...
20 February 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul leadership has decided to continue to flag the recent deaths of four minor boys in North Dinajpur district at a Border Security Force (BSF) work site, underscoring the "negligence" and "apathy" of the central force at the ...
19 February 2024 TelegraphThe Bengal government will soon introduce a set of standard operating procedures for the tea industry of the state to resolve different issues of the industry, especially the closure and reopening of tea estates.Sources in the government said the ...
19 February 2024 TelegraphTrade union leaders of Trinamul, along with party workers, have set a target to meet workers employed across 130-plus tea estates across the Dooars belt during the next 11 days.From Monday, the Trinamul Cha Bagan Shramik Union (TCBSU) will ...
19 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday pointed fingers at the BJP for instigating the turmoil in Sandeshkhali, eliciting a swift rebuttal from the BJP, which in turn accused the TMC and the state government of complicity in ...
19 February 2024 TelegraphThe Eastern Himalaya Travel & Tour Operators’ Association (EHTTOA) has decided to promote cross-border tourism and adventure tourism in eastern India.The decision was made at the biennial meeting of the association in Kalimpong on Saturday.“Our association is working to ...
19 February 2024 TelegraphA herd of over 30 wild elephants went on a rampage at a village in Dhupguri block of Jalpaiguri on Saturday night and damaged potato crop spread over an area of over 50 bighas.On Sunday, foresters met the affected ...
19 February 2024 TelegraphA delegation of the National Commission for Women (NCW) led by its chairperson Rekha Sharma is scheduled to visit unrest-hit Sandeshkhali on Monday.Last week two members of NCW had visited the area and submitted a report revealing a "troubling ...
19 February 2024 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Sunday yet again accused the BJP of attempting to disrupt peace in Sandeshkhali and said the situation was being exaggerated, while a visiting delegation of her party’s leadership met people on the ground to assess the ...
19 February 2024 TelegraphThe Eastern Himalaya Travel & Tour Operators’ Association (EHTTOA) has decided to promote cross-border tourism and adventure tourism in eastern India.The decision was made at the biennial meeting of the association in Kalimpong on Saturday.“Our association is working to ...
19 February 2024 TelegraphTrade union leaders of Trinamul, along with party workers, have set a target to meet workers employed across 130-plus tea estates across the Dooars belt during the next 11 days.From Monday, the Trinamul Cha Bagan Shramik Union (TCBSU) will ...
19 February 2024 TelegraphMamata Banerjee on Sunday yet again accused the BJP of attempting to disrupt peace in Sandeshkhali and said the situation was being exaggerated, while a visiting delegation of her party’s leadership met people on the ground to assess the ...
19 February 2024 TelegraphMamata Banerjee has asked chief secretary B.P. Gopalika to launch a portal to register the names of those whose Aadhaar cards were deactivated and has vowed that nobody in Bengal will be denied any government service or benefit on ...
19 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday pointed fingers at the BJP for instigating the turmoil in Sandeshkhali, eliciting a swift rebuttal from the BJP, which in turn accused the TMC and the state government of complicity in ...
19 February 2024 TelegraphThe BJP adopted a political resolution on Sandeshkhali in its two-day national convention in Delhi that ended on Sunday, making it obvious that the party plans to use the issue against Trinamul in the Lok Sabha elections.The resolution was ...
19 February 2024 TelegraphTea planters in north Bengal have issued a caveat days before the Minimum Wages Advisory Committee meeting, stating that the implementation of the minimum pay at this moment will sound the death knell for the industry.The Bengal government has ...
19 February 2024 TelegraphThree ministers in the cabinet of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday visited Sandeshkhali, which has been witnessing protests, to "speak to people about their grievances".The land department also opened camps to register the complaints of villagers ...
19 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday alleged that the BJP-led central government "deactivated" Aadhaar card of people in the state before the upcoming Lok Sabha elections so that they do not get the benefits of various social ...
19 February 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul Congress on Saturday cancelled its “confidence-building” public meeting scheduled for Sunday in the trouble-torn Sandeshkhali citing the ongoing higher secondary examination. The ruling party has instead decided to hold an internal organisational meeting on Sunday to take ...
19 February 2024 TelegraphPanic spread among several people across Bengal after they received letters from the UIDAI informing them that their Aadhaar number had been deactivated and their requirements to stay in the country were not fulfilled.The UIDAI or Unique Identification Authority ...
19 February 2024 TelegraphIn the end, the House played it safe, and the motion against India needing a new Constitution survived the evening’s to-and-fro duelling by a bare breath.The invisible elephant on the dew-fed Calcutta Club lawns — the looming threat of ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphMamata Banerjee is known to speak bluntly and from the heart, even knowing that it may, on occasion, hurt her. The avatar of herself that she put on display as keynote speaker at the Calcutta Club on Saturday night ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphPanic spread among several people across Bengal after they received letters from the UIDAI informing them that their Aadhaar number had been deactivated and their requirements to stay in the country were not fulfilled.The UIDAI or Unique Identification Authority ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul Congress on Saturday cancelled its “confidence-building” public meeting scheduled for Sunday in the trouble-torn Sandeshkhali citing the ongoing higher secondary examination. The ruling party has instead decided to hold an internal organisational meeting on Sunday to take ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphRajesh Banik, a sweet shop owner in Madarihat of Alipurduar, was shocked to see empty containers in his shop early on Saturday morning.Sweets worth Rs 50,000 that he had readied late on Friday night for a wedding order had ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphThe tea trade union of Mamata Banerjee’s party will begin an 11-day march across the Dooars next week to inform tea workers and their families about the state government's initiatives taken for them in contrast to the alleged apathy ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphThe Kamtapur Progressive Party (KPP), a regional political force in north Bengal with considerable clout among the Rajbanshis, has decided to launch a campaign against the BJP ahead of the Lok Sabha polls over "unmet Rajbanshi demands".“We have lined ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphThe Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) started a three-day fest in Sittong of Kurseong sub-division on Saturday to promote rural tourism and homestay facilities across the hills.Named the Darjeeling Ecotourism and Cultural Festival, the event was flagged off at Ahaldara, ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphIn a major reshuffle in its IPS cadre, the West Bengal government on Saturday removed senior officer Sumit Kumar from the post of DIG (Barasat Range) and made him DIG (Security), an official said.Kumar was replaced by DIG (Malda ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphTea planters in north Bengal have issued a caveat days before the Minimum Wages Advisory Committee meeting, stating that the implementation of the minimum pay at this moment will sound the death knell for the industry.The Bengal government has ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphThe Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) started a three-day fest in Sittong of Kurseong sub-division on Saturday to promote rural tourism and homestay facilities across the hills.Named the Darjeeling Ecotourism and Cultural Festival, the event was flagged off at Ahaldara, ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphRajesh Banik, a sweet shop owner in Madarihat of Alipurduar, was shocked to see empty containers in his shop early on Saturday morning.Sweets worth Rs 50,000 that he had readied late on Friday night for a wedding order had ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphThe Kamtapur Progressive Party (KPP), a regional political force in north Bengal with considerable clout among the Rajbanshis, has decided to launch a campaign against the BJP ahead of the Lok Sabha polls over "unmet Rajbanshi demands".“We have lined ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphThe tea trade union of Mamata Banerjee’s party will begin an 11-day march across the Dooars next week to inform tea workers and their families about the state government's initiatives taken for them in contrast to the alleged apathy ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphAuthorities of the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) in Kalyani have written to the Bengal government to include it as a service provider under its flagship health insurance scheme Swasthya Sathi.Since the facilities under the Centre-sponsored health ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphA six-member team of the West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights (WBCPCR) on Saturday visited Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district to ascertain complaints of child abuse in the politically troubled area.Villagers alleged that a seven-month-old child ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphThe Vishwa Hindu Parishad has filed a petition before the Jalpaiguri Circuit Bench of Calcutta High Court claiming that a lioness transferred to Bengal Safari Park here from Tripura was named "Sita" and prayed that the name be changed, ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphWest Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Saturday said the doors of Raj Bhavan are open for the women of trouble-torn Sandeshkhali who feel unsafe in their homes.Speaking to PTI, Bose, who considers himself the Rakhi brother of the ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphTrinamul leader Shibu Hazra arrested after complaints of sexual harassment by women in Sandeshkhali: reports NDTVThis is a breaking news. Please refresh the page for recent updates.
18 February 2024 TelegraphThe Mamata Banerjee dispensation has decided to reach out to each of the 21 lakh-odd MGNREGA workers after their due wages are cleared by the Bengal government on March 1 to make the beneficiary aware that the payment is ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphThe Trinamul Congress has launched a drive in Sandeshkhali to identify residents whose properties were allegedly grabbed by party leaders Shibaprasad Hazra and Uttam Sardar and to pay compensation for the expropriated assets. Hazra and Sardar who, along with ...
18 February 2024 TelegraphJyoti Priya Mallick, who had been arrested in connection with the multi-crore food grains distribution "scam" in October last year, was removed from the council of ministers and his portfolios were distributed among Partha Bhowmick, the irrigation minister, and ...
17 February 2024 Telegraph